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What in the name of God has happened to the spelling ability of the human species?

  • 02-08-2019 12:24PM
    #1
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I know you can all feel it too. Something slowly slipping away. Something that was once so easy slowly being lost.

    A skill, a knowing.

    I am looking at you Homo sapiens!

    What is happening to us? I once was told that when you went to the Gaeltacht your vocabulary improved but your grammar became worse from hearing bad grammar.

    Is it possible the level of grammar and vocabulary we expose ourselves to daily online is so bad it's infecting us?

    How do we stop this?

    Has it happened to you?

    It's happening to me!


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Comments

  • #2
    RMAOK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,477 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Eye dont no what u talkin bout :confused:


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I no wat your sayin, ppl shud try dat.


  • #4
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I no wat your sayin, ppl shud try dat.
    Its not just my spelling I think now English is my second language because my grammar is so bad.

    I think i am even getting an accent!


  • #5
    Silent Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    Like even if I like agreede wiv like U id like be better then this....like. Djunowaddimeen?


  • #6
    Anto Lynch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭Anto Lynch


    Old age and too much cocaine. Thats my excuse anyway.


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  • #7
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I am legit from this point for a whole MONTH not correcting typos grammar spelling on ANY of my posts so by the end of the month we can see how bad I am.



    Starting NOW!


  • #8
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Unless its in personal issues cuz i have to be repecful


  • #9
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,382 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    this is what happens when you move away from the church and stop battering kids, they can't spell and are poor at mental arithmetic!


    back in the day people could spell but they carried massive mental baggage and scars


  • #10
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    this is what happens when you move away from the church and stop battering kids, they can't spell and are poor at mental arithmetic!
    :pac:


  • #11
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭smilerf


    A few people told me that they don't even teach spelling in school anymore
    Don't know how true it is


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    De de de [\b]

    ....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
    BETTER WATCH OUT.



    Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Anto Lynch wrote: »
    Old age and too much cocaine. Thats my excuse anyway.

    Don't forget the floozues


  • #14
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,620 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    * it's happening to me










    Couldn't resist, sorry!


  • #15
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    How do we stop this?

    We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.


  • #16
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    De de de [\b]

    ....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
    BETTER WATCH OUT.



    Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle
    I did nazi see that coming.


  • #17
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Greyfox wrote: »
    We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.
    what if its a lot wrong? Like 3 yr old wrong?


  • #18
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    De de de [\b]

    ....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
    BETTER WATCH OUT.



    Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle


    Boil the kittle.


  • #19
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,475 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I am legit from this point for a whole MONTH not correcting typos grammar spelling on ANY of my posts so by the end of the month we can see how bad I am.



    Starting NOW!

    You actually started in your op.


  • #20
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    what if its a lot wrong? Like 3 yr old wrong?

    The you need to sit your leaving cert again :)


  • #21
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Greyfox wrote: »
    The you need to sit your leaving cert again :)
    I not able for leaving cert!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Has predictive text kind of softened it a bit?..It was way worse a few years ago.. doesn't seem to be as bad the last couple of years..

    Emojis on the other hand..


  • #23
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I wonder if it's just an English language thing, or are French, Italians, Chinese, whoever, stuffing up their grammar as well?


  • #24
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Has predictive text kind of softened it a bit?..It was way worse a few years ago.. doesn't seem to be as bad the last couple of years..

    Emojis on the other hand..

    No machine known to man can predict my text. No machine alive!


  • #25
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    https://images.app.goo.gl/owXPpSPcwupDrL6RA


  • #26
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    mad muffin wrote: »
    https://images.app.goo.gl/owXPpSPcwupDrL6RA


    This better not be a creepy pasta! Ok you have got my trust will click.


  • #27
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,566 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    * it's happening to me








    Couldn't resist, sorry!


    LOL
    I wuz jus a bout too post dat


  • #28
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    No machine known to man can predict my text. No machine alive!

    My predictive text always predicts the wrong bloody word.


    Thinking of sacking it.


  • #29
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Apart from my inability to spell correctly what I find a bit disquieting is that Chrome often can't spell either. Probably something to do with it's American cultural baggage.


  • #30
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Apart from my inability to spell correctly what I find a bit disquieting is that Chrome often can't spell either. Probably something to do with it's American cultural baggage.
    Yeah I am so insecure i just go with it.


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  • #31
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Greyfox wrote: »
    We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.

    Google is useful, but context is also required. A document can pass spell check but be full of mistakes where people have mistakenly used homophones. If you don’t know how to spell in the first place, you’ll put reliance on the technology, with potential for error.


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